Washing apparatus.



P. SOGHUREK, Sn. WASHING APPARATUS APPLICATION FILED JULY so. 1908.

Patented Mar. 23, 1909.

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FRANK SOCHUBEK, BIL, 0F MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Potontod March 23, 1900.

Application fled misc, 1m. mm 110. 444,811.

To' all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Socnmmx, Sn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing A paratus and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact. description thereof.

My invention consists in what is hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying. drawings and pointed out in claims, its object being to provide simple, economical and efficient machines for washing brewers shavings without appreciable splitting or breaking of same.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a vertical longitudinal section view of a washing machine in accordance with my inven' tion, certain of the parts of same appearing in side elevation being broken away; Fig. 2, a for the most part vertical transverse section of the machine; Fig. 3, an end elevation of a fragment of the machine partly in section; Fi 4, a side elevation of a fra ment of the mac inc partly in section and 'i 5;a sectional view of a detail of the machine on the plane indicated by line 5-5 in Fig. 2.

Referring by characters to the drawin A indicates each of a pair of end standard; and 13 each of a pair of side bars in connection with the standards to therewith constitut'ethe frame of the machine. Provided in connection with" the side bars of the frame are hangers b of the journals or arbors of anti-friction rollers c that oppose curvilinear tracks d upon the lower section C of a separable drum, the headvends of this section of the drum being centrally recessed to obtain clearance for a partly hollow and perforated shaft D for WhlOh the frame-standards are provided with bearings. The drum-section is provided with upper opposite longitudinal channels e that extend outward and are semicircular in cross-section. These channels are in communication with an outer conduit f that is central of said drum-section transversely of the same and provided midway of its len h with a radially extending dischar e-nozz e f in connection with cockcontro ed drain-pipes g of the drum.

One head-end of the drum-section C is rovided with a depending segmental rack in mesh with a worm-pimon t of a shaft E supported in bearings 7' attached to the bars B of the machine-frame. A turning-crank F is employed on either of the squared ends of the shaft E to effect a rotary adjustment of the drum.

The u 'per section C of thedrum has its head-en centrally recessed to .clear the shaft D, and this upper section of said drum extends into the lower section of same. Outer upper end and side fl m of the lower drum-scction oppose sim r flanges n of the up r drum-section, and pintles o engage knuc es pg of the side flangfs of both rum-sections. he pintles at e1t or side of the drum being removed, the upper drumsection may be swn over on the remalnmg pintles to open sai drum, and upon-1e moval of all of the pintles said upper drumsection may be detached from the lower drum-section. The u per drum-section comprises opposite slides Q" for which the head-ends of said drum-section are provided with guides r and handles 8 are attached to the slides. Either or both slides may be pushedup to open the drum, and both being thus adjusted one passes under the other there bem suitable clearance in their guides to provi e for this result. Extending from end to end of the upper drum-section, at the top of same, is a perforated rinse-water conduit t in communication with a screw-threaded nipple u attached to one end of said drumsection outside the same.

The hollow perforated shaft 1) is provided with fast and oose ulleys G, H, at one end for connection wit shouldered and screw-threaded nipple v has ground-'oint engagement with the other end of said 8 aft, and a spiral tension spring w is arranged on the nipple between a shoulder of same and a slide centered on ni pl'e-l' a: a shank y of the slide being a' ustah y held by a set-screw z'in an aperture of the adjacent end-standard of the machine-frame.

By means of the sprin a water-ti ht joint is had between the sha t and nippe without a driving belt. A"

interferencewith the rotary motion of saidshaft.

Mounted on the shaftD is an annular cage comprising heads J, J, and an intermediate metallic fabric consisting of a series of tubular bar's b and a series of wires 0 on which the bars are suitably spaced and squeezed, said bars being primanl annular in crosssection and provided wit apertures at predetermined intervals longitudinall thereof for the engagement of said wires. e fabric presents no sharp corners to injure the shavmugs and is of suliicient strength, ri idity and durability for my pu ose, said fa ric being made non-corrosive y galvan'izin The bars of the major portion of the a oresaid fabric are riveted to annular flanges of the cage-heads, but the bars of a removable section of said fabric are engaged at their ends with slots provided in sai heads. Key-pins d are emplo ed to prevent accidental displacement 0 the removable section of the aforesaid fabric portion of the cage. When the key-pins are disengaged from the bars of the removable section of the fabric portion of the cagp, the latter may be readily detached from t e cage-heads by suitable mani ulation, it being moved in one direction to have said bars clear. oneof the heads and then in the op osite direction to have the aforesaid bars c ear the other of said heads.

The shavings to be washed are confined within the cage and water for washin and rinsing is supplied through the pipe and conduit t, hose or other suitable water conductors being connected to the ni les aforesaid. The cage is rotated from e t to right or in the opposite direction in the closed drum. There is a tendency of the rotary cage and its contents to lift the water in the direction of rotation and thereby drain said water away from one of the channels e into the other of said channels when said drum is in normal position as shown in Fig. 1. To limit or prevent this drainage a rotary adjustment of the drum is had in the pro er direction by the gearing above spec ed, to change the position of said channels, one of the same being elevated in the direction of the lift of the water and the other corresponding] lowered. The shavings having been w ed they are thereafter thoroughly rinsed, the excess rinse-water finding its way out through the conduit from one or both channels e aforesaid an the having been accomplished the drain-pipes areopened to draw off all t e water from said drum.

I claim:

1. Ina machine forwashing brewers shavings, the combination of a frame, a se arable drum mounted in the frame, a part? ollow, perforated and rotary cage-shaft or the frame is provided withbearings, a nipple having ground-joint engagement with an end which of the shaft, a slide guided on the nipple and having a shank adjustably secured m an aperture of an adjacent frame-standard, and a spiral tension-sprin interposed between a s oulder of the nip e and the slide.

2. In a machine or washing brewers shavings, the combination of a frame, a separable rotary adjustable drum mounted in the frame and having the lower section thereof provided with u per 0 posite outwardly extending longitu inal c annels, an outer conduit on said drum section transvei'sel of the same in communication with said 0 annels and having a radial discharge opening midway of its length, and a cage rotary in the drum through water therein.

3. In a machine for washing brewers shavings, the combination of a frame, a separable rotary adjustable drum mounted in the frame and having the lower section thereof provided with u per opposite outwardly extending longitu mal channels, an outer conduit onsaid drum section transversel ofthe same in communication with said channels and havin a radial dischar e nozzle midway of its lengt cock-controlle drain-pipes connecting said drum section and nozzle, and a cage rotary in the drum through water therein.

4. In a machine for washing brewers shavings, the combination of a frame, a separable rotary adjustable drum mounted in, the frame and having the lower section thereof provided with u per 0' posite outwardly extending longitu inal c annels, an outer conduit on said drum section transversel of the same in communication with said 0 annels and hav' a radial discharge openin midway of its ength, a artly hollow perfrated shaft for whic said? frame is provide with bearings a cage in connection with the shaft within the drum and an inlet nipple with which one end of said shaft has water-tight rotary connection. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK sooHUaEK, sR. 

